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Hey, d, I just watched your video, and followed to its sources "Whole Brain Teaching"....
this is a fringe movement, and I agree with you that it is disturbing.
But it is NOT part of the public school curriculum or methods.
In the last 10 years we have given seminars to over 6,000 educators representing over 300,000 students. Though we are centered in Southern California, we've been contacted by teachers from across the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Typically, our free seminars, offered three times a year at Crafton Hills College, attract over 400 instructors. Our websites receive over 2,000 hits per day. Whole Brain Teaching is one of the fastest growing, education reform movements in America. (Source)
Where did you find this? It's not what our current "secular schools" do - and appears to be just another "gimmick" that will prove short-lived.
Here's a solution to your concern about "religion creep" -- establish a system of vouchers, where every taxpayer can, for free, send their kid to any school that they want. That would end, overnight, any efforts at religious education in public schools, because the "religious nuts" would use their vouchers to send their kids to a private school that caters to religious nuts.
Do you not think that within a short period of time there wouldn't be religious non religious schools and also schools for caucasian, black, Hispanic, oriental, and any other way we can separate ourselves. How about republican and democrat schools?
Do you advocate progress at the expense of breaking families?
Progress where human interactions are decided based on the profit/loss in the outcome?
hat is the rudder that would guide the direction of progress?
How you explain the simultaneous existence of State of the art defence capabilities and homeless hungry people?
Does progressive mean anti-God?
adjensen
reply to post by Grimpachi
Do you not think that within a short period of time there wouldn't be religious non religious schools and also schools for caucasian, black, Hispanic, oriental, and any other way we can separate ourselves. How about republican and democrat schools?
What makes you think that's not already the case? The only way that you're going to avoid segregation like that is to forbid private schools, though I think it unlikely that anyone could start a "whites only" school and have it stand -- we do have anti-discrimination laws, you know.
The question was how to avoid religious influences in schools, and the simplest solution is to allow the religious nuts, whose views are not welcome in public schools, to go somewhere else.
The cure being worse than the sickness.
Dear wildtimes, I really don't understand this argument. It seems very similar to saying that our nation was founded as a Republic, and the founders were very afraid of a Democracy. So it would seem as though Democrats are unconstitutional. Just because they've adopted the name "Progressive," doesn't mean they're for progress, at least progress towards a desirable goal.
It feels as though you consider "Progressives" THE ENEMY - and I don't understand why anyone wants a stagnant or "regressive" society.
We need to make PROGRESS.
Here, it seems you are chasing a Utopian dream. From the school districts I've seen in this state, even the well funded, suburban, high reputation, public schools can't teach much more than 80% of it's students acceptable levels of science, math, and reading. In the ten or twelve rural and small town districts around me, they're lucky to get even one of those subjects up to 60%.
Education toward adult achievement and life skills does NOT need to include "God." It is maths, science, history (whether or not history is "accurate" is a fine subject), social studies, civics, classical philosophy, literature, reading and writing, and whatever "tech" is deemed most important that should be taught in schools.
What makes you think the rich and well to do wouldn't still pay more for their kids education in schools that cost more.
This would do nothing to help the poor the inequality would still be there.
Please explain.
I think the only thing it would do is introduce religious mob rule to the local school systems. In areas where there are mostly catholic, likely only the catholic school would survive.
adjensen
reply to post by Grimpachi
Please explain.
Here are the relevant facts:
1) There is concern about religious influence on public education (you know, the topic of the thread)
2) There are significant problems with many public schools in the United States
3) Poor people in those places are discriminated against because they can't afford to take their kids out of bad schools and put them in good ones
Here's my solution:
1) Grant vouchers that allow anyone to put their kid in the school that they think will serve their child best
Now, here's an opinion:
1) You think that people might abuse the system and become segregated
Now, why are you ignoring the facts, and refuting the solution with an opinion for which you have no evidence, because it is purely speculative?
That's what I mean when I say that your claim that vouchers would hurt the poor is baloney. It would give them a choice in an open market and would result in better education as the good schools excelled and the bad ones either emulated the good ones, or went under.
Look at the colleges it is already in practice what laws or regulations do you think exist that would prevent the same thing from happening with k-12 schools?
most flagship universities in the South remain more than 80 percent white, that 60 percent of black freshmen attend historically black colleges or junior colleges and that success rates for minorities, measured in graduation rates and enrollment in graduate schools, are stagnant or falling in all 12 states.link